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The symbol shows the location of the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter which serves 470,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Hannington transmitter broadcast?

If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.

Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C45 (666.0MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
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1 BBC One (SD) South, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C42 (642.0MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C39+ (618.2MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C40 (626.0MHz)362mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C43 (650.0MHz)359mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C46 (674.0MHz)359mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Hannington transmitter?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 46km south-southwest (194°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 48km south (179°)
to ITV Meridian/Central (Thames Valley) region - 15 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford

How will the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1318 Apr 2018
EEEB E TW T
C32com7
C34com8
C35C5wavesC5waves
C39BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCBBBCB
C40SDN
C41SDN
C42ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C43ArqA
C44ArqA
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C46ArqB
C47ArqB
C51tv_off_local
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off
C66C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 8 Feb 12 and 22 Feb 12.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 250kW
Analogue 5(-6.2dB) 60kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 50kW
com7(-8.3dB) 36.7kW
com8(-9.8dB) 26.2kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB(-10dB) 25kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*(-11dB) 20kW
Mux C*, Mux D*(-14dB) 10kW

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Hannington transmitter area

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Dec 2006Meridian
Dec 2006-Feb 2009ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Hannington was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Thursday, 3 May 2012
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Mark Fletcher
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1:47 AM
Halifax

Tim,Possibly !
At the same time for now try a reset procedure,delete all channels,plug your appliance out of the mains for 30 seconds then back in,now plug the aerial out of your appliance and for now leave it plugged out,do a first time installation normally an automatic scan let it run from start to finish,roughly 2 minutes,the result it will fail to pick up anything.Now after this replug your aerial back in then rescan again it should now work as the previous memory was erased.If this fails,then maybe what you stated about the aerial being misaligned by 5 degrees you may have to realign the aerial by those 5 degrees to pick up the elusive ArqB/Com6 multiplex once again.

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tim
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10:24 AM

Mark: it worked. the channels break up more than the rest (probably down to misallignment) but that is simpler to fix. thanks

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Mark Fletcher
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3:37 PM
Halifax

Tim.No problem,glad to assist you !

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Friday, 4 May 2012
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Barbara Harper
5:11 PM
Abingdon

Postcode OX13 6BY
Last 2-3 days no channels until 8.00 pm'ish - retuning does not alter this.
Also reception from abou5 5.00 a.m. to 7.00 a.m. is so poor it is impossible to watch or hear - so no television access at all.

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Monday, 7 May 2012
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tim
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

10:54 AM

is there any reason that new multiplexes should break for a while then be clear?

coms5 is virtually perfect now but was unwatchable for the first few weeks after swichover. I have a similar problem now with coms6- however as my device failed to find them for several weeks this shouldnt be relay teething problems. The coms6 channels dont only break up the devices both say no signal after 30 seconds or so (identical to coms5 early performance).

Yesterday for a while every channel was perfect, now they are behaving as above. My cabling is new and signal fine (from relay)- just wondering if anyone has an explanation.

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Steve Swift
2:13 PM
Alton

Can I fit an antenna that will receive Hannington but reject Crystal Palace?

Crystal palace is 90° to my antenna, and almost twice as far away, but my PVR tunes mostly to Crystal Palace, and the signal if often poor quality.

My PVR doesn't have the facility to tune stations manually. I can tune to an individual mux, but then I lose all the other channels.

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Dave Lindsay
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2:32 PM

Steve Swift: Crystal Palace uses channel numbers 22 to 30 and Hannington uses those from 39 to 47. Thus if you unplug the aerial lead for the part of the scan of Crystal Palace channels, it won't pick them up.

The scan runs C21 to C69, so if it only gies a percentage on the scale as it scans, then you can convert.

Should the device, at a later time, take it upon itself to scan and then change the tuned channels to those of Crystal Palace, then you will have to look at installing a filter to block Group A channels.

For information and an example:

Television Aerial Boosters / Amplifiers, Splitters, Diplexers & Triplexers

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Monday, 14 May 2012
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Roger
7:06 PM
Basingstoke

I get my signal from hannington my post code is RG21 3EG

Why is it we get the weather for Maidstone area on itv1 hd

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Matt
9:59 PM
Wallingford

Since the last digital switchover everything being broadcast from Hannington @ 25000 W i.e. com4, com5 and com6 has had poor reception with the images blocking out. Tonight it's even worse and I've lost these channels altogether. I retuned following the unplug the aerial first and then repeat the tuning and all these channels have gone. They were working fine before the the last switchover. This is very disappointing as i was expecting an improvement in the quality of digital broadcasting

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